ghostofwar

ok but was the japanese response more like "WTF is this new thing?" or was it the openly hostile reaction that american snowboarders seemed to face from the ski industry?

I personally was not around for the beginning of this thing in any country, but First Descent told us all the story of the snowboarding REVOLUTION... in America and parts of Europe. Basically what I got out of this movie was: snowboarding was originally rejected and looked down upon, snowboarders were banned from the lifts in the 80's/early 90's, etc. Then, whoops, snowboarding is cool all of a sudden and the snow industry does a 180 to cash in on the popularity. What was the story in Japan? Did they embrace and accept it right away or was there an initial rejection here as well? Anyb

from what i hear boa is a nightmare dude. practically nobody has anything good to say about it. never used it myself but you can find about a million forums out there where people badmouth it for pages and pages.

yeah they have a ton of forward lean built in. I liked it at first but now I wish I could back it off and i really can't. but mostly the team skybacks are just higher than I'd like them to be.

what's too small, the lowback Cartels? If you bought a pair I'll trade you the highbacks (skybacks) off the ones I bought in the US...

Oh also the lowback Cartel is Japan only. Wish I new that before I went back home for Xmas and bought a pair with the team skybacks.

Burton makes the X8, the Aura, and the Avenue boards, also the Serrow boots only sold in Japan. (I guess the X8 will be available all over next year, but this year it's Japan only.) Also Japan sometimes gets late release graphics that are unique to this country. Why?? (I can see the graphics as a kind of gimmick, but why sell actual hardgoods only in Japan?) Do other companies do much of this?

Well that does me no good up here but thanks.

And about the environment wasn't somebody on here selling environmentally friendly wax at a showing of Bikecar or something? Is that stuff widely available? (Also totally off topic, but how is Bikecar?)

No I hadn't thought about it but that's a good idea.

Quote: Originally posted by SirJibAlot: I don't know about Toko, I usually use OneBallJay. Seems to work well, no complaints here... -SJA Where are you getting OneBallJay in Japan? Or did you bring a bunch over with you? I've never seen it here, even in specialty shops.

It's too cold to go out on the balcony to scrape my wax off, so I usually do it in my kitchen (as it has the most sweepable floor). The shavings get all over the floor and my clothes. Harder waxes basically turn to dust as I scrape and the particles fill the air/my lungs. How dangerous is this to my health? Let's say I wax and scrape about once a week. And I know that this problem would go away if I just scraped at the base of the mountain like a lot of people, but I'm always too anxious to get on the snow so I don't want to waste twenty minutes of the morning scraping in the parking

I do nighters almost every day after work (resort 25 minutes from my workplace). If they didn't offer nighters I might not bother to buy a season pass, as there are so many ski-jos in the area that I'd rather spend each weekend at a different one (since none are really that big).

To be honest I don't really give a shit about any opening ceremony... is the place going to be snowboardable or what?

Not really a webcam but if you go to http://www.zao-ski.or.jp/ they have pics, most recent one is from the 19th. Most recent bulletin is from the 24th, the one that claims a 12/2 opening.